Constituency
264. Durgapur-I
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1982
WB-DURGAPUR-I
CPM 48.6%won by 4.7%INC 43.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.9% to 4.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 10.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.5% of the vote between them, up from 80.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
72,453
Margin
3,422
4.72%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1DILIP MAZUMDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM35,21348.6%
- 2SUDEB ROYIndian National Congress · INC31,79143.9%
- 3R.K. DASSUC · SUC3,5314.9%
- 4DEDIDAS MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND8991.2%
- 5BEJOY BOURIIndependent · IND3580.5%
- 6NIRMAL SENGUPTAIndependent · IND2520.3%
- 7MUKUL SAMANTAIndependent · IND2490.3%
- 8KALYAN GOSWAMIIndependent · IND1600.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −33.2%
- CPM share
- 59.3% → 48.6%
- INC share
- 21.4% → 43.9%
- Turnout
- — → —